WEF Calls for Systems Thinking to Leverage Energy Nexus
The World Economic Forum is urging leaders to adopt systems leadership, a collective approach that views energy not as a single sector but as the backbone connecting water, food, health, and environmental stability. Fragmented decision-making, the forum warns, keeps policies disjointed and limits progress toward sustainable development goals. Professor Alan Dangour of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine argues that a systems view is essential to manage trade-offs, capture cross-sector benefits, and deliver fair, sustainable climate transitions. South Africa’s renewable energy program offers a glimpse of what integrated planning can achieve. Over roughly a decade, the country expanded…